posthumous
Example Sentences
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I confess I’m not impervious to the posthumous allure.
From Los Angeles Times
There is no escaping the fact that by watching “Love Story,” we are engaging in a posthumous version of the very same thing.
From Los Angeles Times
Andrew was stripped of his royal titles in October last year, following the publication of Giuffre's posthumous memoir.
From BBC
Most significantly, Flanner reported from the trials at Nuremberg, writing that a group of Nazi prisoners “seem already waxen and posthumous, like museum figures of the members of some nefarious long-ago regime which had failed.”
When Deffand was asked to contribute her letters to Voltaire to a posthumous edition of his correspondence, she refused; she did not want to give posterity “any occasion for myself to be spoken of.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
